Royal Opera House Live: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Opera)
A major work from the remarkable partnership of playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, Mahagonny was first performed in Leipzig in 1930. Its first ever Royal Opera staging, by Associate Director of Opera John Fulljames, is sung in English,and conducted by Mark Wigglesworth – recently announced as the successor to Edward Gardner as Music Director of English National Opera. Mahagonny is a satire on money, morality and pleasure-seeking among the dubious citizens of a fictional
19:15 - Running time: 180mins approx
£17.50
Barn Cinema, The Dartington Hall Estate, Devon TQ9 6EL
Wed 1 Apr 2015